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Who are you?

Please define who you think you are.

Just wondering how you see yourself.

Some call me Tim.

That is a common question to ask
in a first year philosophy course.
I spent a couple months thinking
and came up with different ideas
on how to respond.

Here are three examples:

A Lover And A Fighter

Artist, Economist & Parachutist

I don't know, every day I find more.

Edited: to correct poor grammar

I am no more a Virgo than I am an Uncle,
that is just some titles they called me.

women know me by my nickname, "Pleasure Machine."

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'fuckin joob.
.

god

btw, Im Puchita's son.

Gay porn star

+1

I dont know who/how I am and doubt if I will ever know.
(this is philosophical)

But one think am bloody certain about is ...am NOT that guy. Fuck...no!!!!!
(this is factual)

Who wants to know?

I am johan420 you sick bastards

Pure Fucking Magician.

Thanks for the responses... However, I asked 'who are you' not what titles are you known by and what do you do.
Think about it a little more and let me know what you come up with!

Are you saying you spent months thinking about it and that's all you came up with?? I guess they don't care what you learn in college just as long as they get paid. I would have expected them to ask for more since you were being graded on it....

I DO!

I'm Rick James bitch

some people call me maurice

I've looked for that "I" and it was nowhere to be found. I've searched in my body, and it wasn't there. I've searched in my senses, and it wasn't there. I've searched in my feelings, and it wasn't there. I've searched in my thoughts, and it wasn't there. I've searched in my consciousness, and it wasn't there.

Everywhere I searched, there was nothing like "I", no entity, no continuity, no permanence and no control. As I was looking around more deeply, everything from in and out was just emptiness - pure and beautiful, neither empty nor full, neither solid nor not solid, neither still nor moving, and only change, cause and effect were the single lasting and absolute Truths, that pervaded everything.

Conclusion was the only one... "I" was never really there, it was a mere illusion created by the same ego, craving for identity, attached to past and future, filled with lust and greed, afraid of changes and trying to keep everything under its firm control. But I and my illusionary "I" were just a tiny drop of cause and effect in a much bigger ocean of changes.

And since that moment I was enlightened and liberated, as illusion of duality faded away, with past, future, lust and greed dissolved in emptiness... Now I was... no... Now I am living in present moment, and every moment I see the world with new eyes, and every tiny bit of it looks so new, wonderful, magical, beautiful. At the same time I am here and everywhere, I am standing on myself, I am breathing myself, and looking at myself... formless, boundless and timeless. Just like one big ocean with billions of water drops in it. Everything as one... "What a bliss!" - I thought, and it echoed through the ocean - "What a bliss!".

Thus the question became meaningless and search was finally over.

I did take a basic philosophy course
during graduate school for the hell
of it but we were never ever asked
any question even close to this.

Mostly it was read a guy then write
a short paper summarizing his ideas.
Don't get me wrong, it was interesting
reading Locke, Spinoza, etc.


However on my own I am reading,
thinking, and searching for answers,
along the way that question arose.

Came up with many different answers,
some good, some dumb, but the mental
exercise was fun.

In a side note, this afternoon while my
students were finishing their final exam
I was finishing a fun little book:

"Plato and a platypus walk into a bar."

I am you and you are me
though separate entities we appear to be

If that is your own experience, then I hope to meet you at an exit point some day.

Who I am
by:Alan

When I was seven I made a parachute from my moms kitchen table clothe and jumped off the roof. When I was eight I made wings for my big wheel and ramped it off a twelve foot wall. Through out my child hood I had dreams all the time that I was running from something, I didn't know what it was, but when it caught up to me I would take off straight up into the air, way up, and then I would begin to fall back down. It seems like I would hit the ground running again. I had dreams I could fly around my great grand mothers house at will. I made a cape out of this special material. This one had to work because the material was like nothing I ever tried before. Im not sure what it was or how my parents came into possession of it but I had to have because I knew it would work. The color was perfect and it had a slick shiny smooth side to it and the other side was not as smooth and it wasn't shiny. But it was going to work! I really believed that if I tried hard enough it would work. My dad flew radio controlled airplanes and I imagined that if the plane was big enough I could hold onto it and go way up and use a cape or parachute to get back down. I tried large kites and pure will.

I started climbing as a teenager and often wished I could take the quick way down but my intellect grew with me. I am a loner I have no real friends or family, Im recently divorced and jump alot more now. I know things and see things that others dont. Like simple things. Ill notice a dead bird in the grill of a passing car. Or the fact that someone in passing has a crooked eye. I seem to be drawn to a girl with a crooked eye for some reason. I can make friends anywhere I go or I can be un noticed. I love the mechanics of a parachute. I jump alone usually, and I jump for the satisfaction of it all working out. Not for the glory or attention of BASE. I started this journey on my own. The number one song the day I was born was the Beatles-Its a long hard road, and it has been. I love dogs and cats and all animals. I despise trophy hunters. I have been climbing in the New river Gorge since '93 and guiding on the rivers since '96. I'll burn one with ya but I really don't drink, I drank a bit in the military, but after that, no thanks.

I believe common since works best. I will straight up walk away from drama, can't stand it. I get teary eyed at really sad things, like when johan420's friend died. Piss me off, Ill come atcha with both barrels a blazin'

Im an outdoors guy, shorts and sandals or jeans and t-shirts. Ill wade thru chest high water to catch a snake just to take a picture and then let it go. Im simple and content.

"What’s true is that we are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them".

In the grand scheme of things I'm nothing. Within human history I'm still nothing. Within my life I'm probably just a tragedy full of the desire for self satisfaction. Filled with the need to be better than what I was offered as a child by family with major problems and who has no desire to succeed or experience life, but to grow old even if it means not experiencing life's treasures (However insignificant they are within the grand scheme).

While we as individuals mean nothing in the universe, that is what makes life (however short) so significant and beautiful. Realizing it will end at an undisclosed time makes every experience seem more meaningful and worthwhile.

These are the rationalizations that definite who I am and what I do.

that's beautiful! and humbling.

Without all the drama, yeah, it is my experience. I consider myself lucky, that I somehow got interested in Buddhism several years ago. I am one of those, who thinks that religions are full of bullshit, and thought Buddhism was just one of them. But I was wrong. I was trying to find and read more information on meditation, and almost always was bumping into Buddhism. So being a curious person I've started reading about it. While on the surface it seemed to be just another religion, with it's own rituals and quirks, I soon found out that bellow it the core principles or values were actually not a regular system based on belief and "voodoo magic", but could be examined, tested for truth and experienced. You didn't need to believe anything, there was no god to follow, it simply was like a mental training for your mind, to understand the world how it actually is and how it works. As I like to say, Buddhism to life is like math to numbers, to understand them, you have to learn. And that's how I gradually came to what I've wrote above. It's still not pure, but I'm trying almost every day to learn more and experience.

Maybe someday we'll meet.

Other's "Timmay".

Really good stuff!!
Thank you!

Alright!!!
Now you guys are thinking.
I appreciate all the responses.

Who am I? I am a vibrant individual. Often seen jumping buildings and dropping chutes. I have been known to drive for hours only to end up in the same place. I travel the world donating hot tubs to underprivileged families. I write Pulitzer Prize winning blogs. Using only duct tape I built a car and drove it from Washington to Bermuda. I enjoy long walks on the beach. I once surfed Antarctica wearing only a left sock. I do double back flips on my dirt bike before breakfast. I have a house in Arizona and I once defended it from a horde of swarming ants using only a shop vac and sticky tape. I skydive and bungee jump every Tuesday from the same hot air balloon. I believe anything with an engine should be supercharged. I am accused of sandbagging every time I play golf. I personally know that deep down there is more to Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, and I use it to make a point along with potatoes, mangos, and oranges, after all, life is what we peel. I fly to Europe once a year for 1 day because I want the air miles. I have met Justin Timberlake via satellite and brought sexy back cyber style. Years ago I pumped gas and I now believe the fumes gave me super human powers. I enjoy extreme snow shovel racing. I can do advanced algorithms without a piece of paper but can’t spell algorithms without spell check. My favorite place to sleep is the airport. I can hold my breath for 10 minutes. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I won the daily double but lost the ticket, re-found the ticket and ate it after ten days of a just water diet. I am extremely accurate with a bow and arrow. I make the impossible look easy, and the easy look impossible. I am deadly with a violin. Ricky Bobby’s got nothing on me. I once took the same flight 3 times in one day. My precision with a needle and thread has won me world acclaim in knitting circles. When I am bored I bake prize winning bunt cakes. I am spontaneous, elusive, brilliant, and can use a pressure washer. I give mechanical advice free of charge. I have performed at the Met. In my spare time I give stock picks to billionaires. I teach polka dancing. My hands are registered as a deadly weapon in 37 states. I do 8 minute abs in 6 minutes. I was a presidential advisor but just lost that job when I told the president his health care bill would be popular. I once balanced the national budget before lunch. I can kick a soccer ball over 100 yards. I am able to read minds, predict the future and prevent the inevitable. I’ve died more times then boy bands but keep coming back because I can’t get enough of this place. Of course, that’s just me in the mirror. To you I’m just another troll.

Without a doubt, you are the most interesting man in the world. Stay thirsty my friend.

Walt

That was an extremely pleasant brain f@ck

I believe this question is best answered by a quote from the prolific spinach munching cartoon sailor, Popeye...

"I am what I am, and that's all I am."

I leave you with that thought.

Deep...moving...inspiring. How, sir, do you do it?

I am strong because I am aware of my weakness, I am alive because I am a fighter, I am wise because I have been foolish, I laugh because I have experienced sadness, above all, I love because I have experienced the worlds hatred. There is my philosophical description.

The truth...I typed two books, and deleted them cause that shit got faggishly deep. So...what i said above and....I like pussy, base since 06', skydiving since 05', and dorkzonehero's post's since I hit puberty...in that order. And I'm cool cause my smiley has sunglasses...there is my jokey response cause it's embarrassing to be your true self to people sometimes. If you wanna know me come have a beer sometime and loft off something fun with me. If anything goes wrong I'll save you with my good hand!

i dont even have a fucking clue anymore. i dont know what the fuck im trying to do..............debt has me so by the balls that i feel like i have NO life anymore.................

If anything goes wrong
I'll save you with my good hand!

That my friend was fucking awersome!
I almost laughed Irish coffee all over
my new netbook - funny shit fo sho.

Oh and there is nothing embarrasing
about being/revealing your true self.
Any of human of caliber recognizes
the strength it takes and appreciates
it as such, unless your true self is a
douche bag, then keep it hidden.

remember this thread? Makes me laugh.

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That's nice

"Me? I know who I am! I'm a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude."